TALLAHASSEE _ Florida’s November election is no longer in danger of being changed, but the lengthy challenge to the state’s congressional districts isn’t over. A coalition of plaintiffs that sued over the congressional maps is appealing a Leon County judge’s ruling earlier this month that the Legislature’s second attempt at
TALLAHASSEE — Last year, legislators allocated $900,000 to help Floridians find affordable health care through a new state-backed website. At the same time, they refused to expand Medicaid or work with the federal government to offer subsidized insurance plans. Six months after the launch of the state’s effort, called Florida
In an election where every vote really does count, Jay Fant has a 4-vote lead in the latest unofficial tally of results for his race with Paul Renner in Florida House District 15. The freshest update on the Duval County Supervisor of Election’s site shows Fant received 5,961 votes and
TALLAHASSEE — The winners of almost half of the 120 Florida House seats have already been decided — or are all but decided. After Tuesday’s primary elections, 46 seats have been won, either by candidates running unopposed or by candidates who emerged from the primaries without opposition in the November
Home inspections have become an important part of the home-buying process, as insurance companies no longer automatically insure homes constructed with outdated building codes, and financial institutions seek assurances the homes they are financing are free of defects. The state of Florida began licensing home inspectors in 2010. Many of
TALLAHASSEE | Citizens Property Insurance Corp. wants state regulators to reduce base rates for the majority of its policyholders for the first time since a move to artificially lower rates ended in 2009. About 70 percent of Citizens’ policyholders, mostly inland residential customers, would benefit from the proposed 5.8 percent
When the dust settled Friday on the political drama of an all-day election recount, the result of the cliffhanger race between Jay Fant and Paul Renner boiled down to this. In a primary election that most people sat out, Fant won because two more people voted for him than Renner
Meenan P.A. and its clients hosted a fundraiser for Governor Rick Scott on August 18th. The Governor spent almost two hours discussing the current business climate in Florida, and other issues facing Florida State Government. “We were fortunate to have the Governor visit our new office within a week after
LAKE WALES | Judi Sprague doesn’t feel like State Farm has been very neighborly lately. For the past 45 years, Sprague and her husband Dan have alternately maintained car, homeowners, and manufactured home insurance policies with the company, famous for its “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” slogan.
TALLAHASSEE – The Office of Insurance Regulation today received the 2015 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which proposes a statewide average rate decrease of 2.5% – the first decrease in four years. NCCI, which is a licensed rating organization authorized to make rate